Yay update!

My annual Seminar presentation and Progress Report and Committee Meeting (of DOOM) occurred recently, so I had to go hide for a while and bust my arse on those. Everything went about as I had expected.

Fun Fact: If you make a word cloud out of my progress report one of the larger words is "promiscuous". Another is "cleavage". SWAM and I get naughty-flagged emails from each other all the time. Yes, I really am in biophysics, why do you ask?

My poor Teaching Portfolio finally made its weary way though all the required committees so I have a shiny certificate that states I will get a Minor in Higher Education (if/when I finish my PhD).

Anybody out there going to the Gibbs conference? It's usually a rollicking good time. I'm trying to make my mind up about it for this year though, because I usually go with BFF Senior Grad Student who is going to be busy writing or something silly like that, and it's quite a trip from where I am.

Gradschoolus Intteruptus

Actually I am currently MIA because I have the following on my "plate".

• Judging at a major regional high school science fair tomorrow. Don't LOL, is srys bznss. I haz 70 abstracts to read tonight.
  
• Big piles of science need to happen because S.W.A.M. is presenting at conference X in June that is so cool I can't even get in to go listen. She has promised to give me mad props if I can finish dataset Cthulhu by then.
  
• Final Exam/Paper for Scary Biophysics Class is due in a couple weeks.
  
• Annual Teaching Portfolio requirement for my Higher Ed minor due early May
• Oh, and on the subject of the Higher Ed minor, the date for the oral defense for my research requirement was moved from April 26ish to Tuesday. We -they do them in batches once a semester- were informed of this yesterday. To be fair, this wasn't anyone's fault in particular, but it still is less than fun. There is the option to re-schedule for the December slot, but I don't want to drag it out that much longer when I am so close. Will our heroine succeed or encounter massive FAIL? Check in next week to find out.